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Dr Aline Maalouf

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Research associate
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PhD
Ian Ross (31), 223

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I am a control engineering theorist and experimentalist working in the area of quantum control, robust control, optimal control, model predictive control and sensor validation. I am also an electrical engineer specialising in power generation, electrical installation and electrical machines. I banked my research experience from Cambridge University, Oxford University and the University of New South Wales. I have published more than fifty papers in professional journals and conferences. I received awards and recognitions for my research.

I received the PhD degree in control engineering from the University of New South Wale,  Australia in 2011. Also, I hold an Mphil degree in Control Engineering from Cambridge University in UK. I received my BSc. and MSc. in Electrical engineering  from Balamand University.
 
I was a research associate at the University of New South Wales at the Australian Defence Academy from 2011 till 2014.  I am currently a research associate and a lecturer at the Australian National University.

 

I am the convener of the ENGN8537 course: Embedded systems and real time digital signal processing.

Quantum control, optimal control, robust control, stochastic control, power control, sensor validation.

Refereed Journals
 

 1- Aline I. Maalouf: The Derivation and Validation of the Practical Operating Equation
for Electromagnetic Flowmeter’s: Case of having an electrolytic conductor flowing through, IEEE Sensors Journal, v.6, issue 1, p.89-96, February 2006.

2- Aline I. Maalouf: A Validated Model for the Electromagnetic Flowmeter’s Measuring Cell: Case of having an electrolytic conductor flowing through, IEEE Sensors Journal, v.6, issue 3, p. 623-630, June 2006.

3-Aline I. Maalouf: A validated model for the zero drift due to transformer signal in electromagnetic flowmeter operating with electrolytic conductors, IEEE Sensors Journal, v.6, issue 6,  p.1502-1510, December 2006.

4-Aline I. Maalouf: A validated model for the zero drift due to eddy currents in electromagnetic flowmeter operating with electrolytic conductors, IEEE Sensors Journal, v.7, issue 11,  p.497-1505,  November 2007.

5-Aline I. Maalouf and I.R. Petersen: Bounded Real Properties for a Class of Annihilation Operator Linear Quantum Systems, IEEE transactions on Automatic Control, v.56, issue 3, p. 786-801, April 2011.

6-Aline I. Maalouf and I.R. Petersen: Coherent H infinity Control for a Class of Annihilation Operator Linear Quantum Systems, IEEE transactions on Automatic Control, v.56, issue 2, p. 309-319, February 2011.

7-Aline I. Maalouf and I.R. Petersen: Sampled-data LQG control for a class of linear quantum Systems, Systems and Control Letters, v.61, issue 2, p. 369-374, February 2012.

8-Aline I. Maalouf and I.R. Petersen: Time-varying H infinity Control for a class of linear quantum systems: a dynamic game approach, Automatica, v.48, issue 11, p.2908-2916, November 2012.

9- Aline I. Maalouf and I.R. Petersen:  Finite Horizon H infinity: Control for a Class of Linear Quantum Measurement Delayed Systems: A  dynamic game approach, SIAM JOURNAL ON CONTROL AND OPTIMIZATION, v.52, issue 3, p. 1787–1808,  May 2014.

10-Aline I. Maalouf and I.R. Petersen:  Finite Horizon H infinity Control for a Class of Sampled-Data Linear Quantum Systems,  International Journal of Robust and Nonliear Control, v.27, issue 13, pages 2292-2302.

 

Refereed Conferences
 

1-Aline I. Maalouf: The Effect of the Time-Constant of the Reference Trajectory in Predictive Control on Closed-Loop Stability: a Perceptive Approach for a Particular Case, Proceedings of the 5th Asian Control Conference, Melbourne, v.2, p.850-856, July 2004.

2-Aline I. Maalouf:  Does the time-constant of the reference trajectory in predictive control affect the closed-loop stability?, Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Intelligent Control, Cyprus p. 872-876, July 2005.

3-Aline I. Maalouf: The Effect of the Time-Constant of the Reference Trajectory in Predictive Control on Closed-Loop Stability: an analytical Approach for a Particular Case, Proceedings of the American Control Conference, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 2006, p.1563-1568, June 2006.

4-Aline I. Maalouf: Improving the robustness of a parallel robot using predictive functional control (PFC) tools, Proceedings of CDC 2006, San Diego CA, USA, p.6498-6473, December 2006.

5-Aline I. Maalouf and I.R. Petersen: Coherent H infinity Control for a class of linear complex quantum systems, Proceedings of the American Control Conference ACC 2009, USA (finalist for the student best paper award)  p. 1472-1479, June 2009.

6- Aline I.Maalouf and I.R. Petersen: Coherent LQG Control for a class of linear complex quantum systems Proceedings of European Control Conference ECC 2009, Hungary, pages 2271-2276, August 2009.

7-  Aline I.Maalouf and I.R. Petersen: Finite Horizon H infinity Control for a class of linear quantum systems Accepted in the American Control Conference ACC 2010, p. 1904-1911, June 2010.

8- Aline I.Maalouf and I.R. Petersen: Finite Horizon H infinity Control for a Class of Linear Quantum Measurement Delayed Systems: A Dynamic Game Approach. Proceeding of the American Control Conference ACC 2011, p. 4340-4347, June 2011.

9- Aline I.Maalouf and I.R. Petersen: Finite Horizon H infinity Control for a Class of Linear Quantum Sampled- Data Measurement Systems: A Dynamic Game Approach. Proceeding of the IFAC World Congress 2011, Milan, Italy, v.18, issue 1, p. 10141-10149, August 2011.

10- Aline I.Maalouf and I.R. Petersen: Sampled-data LQG control for a class of linear quantum Systems, Proceedings of the American Control Conference ACC 2012, Montreal, Canada, 5837-5842, June 2012.

11- Aline I.Maalouf and I.R. Petersen: On the lossless property of a class of Nonlinear Quantum Systems, Proceedings of AUCC2012, Sydney, NSW, p.443-447, Nov.2012.On the lossless property of a class of nonlinear quantum systems, Proceedings of the

​​12- Aline I.Maalouf and I.R. Petersen: On the physical realizability of a class of nonlinear quantum systems, Proceedings of CDC 2012, Hawaii, USA, p.1088-1092,  December 2012.

13- Aline I.Maalouf and I.R. Petersen: On the physical realizability of a class of nonlinear quantum systems revisited, Proceedings of CDC 2013, Firenze,  Italy, p.1241-1246,  December 2013.

 

 
 

 

 
Scholarships and Honours:
 
Featured as one of the outstanding intellectuals of the 21 century by IBC Cambridge. 
Featured in who's who in the world
 Featured in who's who in sciences and engineering
University of New South Wales Postgraduate scholarship
Cambridge university Overseas Trust scholarship
 Invensys Company scholarship at Oxford University
 
 
 
Undergraduate Contest Awards:
 
Dean's honour list at Balamand University.
BSc. and MSc. final year projects won first prizes
ALMA prize
 

 

  PhD
University of New South Wales, Australia.


Thesis Title:  New Developments in the theory of robust feedback control for linear quantum systems.
 		  
  Mphil degree in Control Engineering
Cambridge University, UK


Thesis Title: The effect of the time constant of the reference trajectory in predictive control on closed-loop stability.
 		  
 
  MSc. Electrical Engineering
Balamand University
Average: 94/100
First class honour, Dean's Honor list.
ALMA Prize


 		  
  BSc. Electrical Engineering
Balamand University
Average: 90/100
First class honour, Dean's Honor list.

 
   
           
 
 
 
 

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